Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victim in the Tawana Brawley case? Tawana? It was such a parenthetical sadness--though also a stroke of cunning--that she was led to such a degrading fantasy, herself as garbage. But the unambiguous casualty was a white assistant prosecutor from Dutchess County named Steven Pagones. Tawana's was not a harmless lie. Once the story went public, it attracted three professional race men named C. Vernon Mason, Alton Maddox and Al Sharpton, lawyers who arrived to work as Tawana's handlers and to demagogue the case in the media. The three identified Pagones as one of the white rapists...
...Washington courtroom was crowded and tense as the prosecutor bored in on Latrena Pixley, a young mother who sat emotionless on the witness stand. "You carried your first child for nine months, held him in your arms and then gave him away. You carried your second child for nine months, held him in your arms, and you haven't seen him for six years. You carried your third child for nine months, held her in your arms and then killed her. Right?" Pixley looked up blankly, paused and answered...
WASHINGTON: Give Ken Starr an inch and, well, you know the rest by now. According to CNN, the prosecutor is no longer satisfied with the imminent testimony of two uniformed Secret Service agents on White House detail who are thought to have knowledge of their protectee?s alleged Oval Office trysts. Starr has subpoenaed the chief of President Clinton's elite plainclothes security detail ?- the one in which men are expected to take a bullet for their boss ?- and seems intent on giving the Secret Service all the moral high ground it needs to drive his own approval ratings right...
WASHINGTON: Linda Tripp certainly looks as if she's under siege. According to CNN, Monica Lewinsky may well cooperate with Maryland state prosecutor Stephen Montanarelli, who's after Tripp for secretly taping her young ex-confidant. Montanarelli also thinks another set of tapes -- of conversations between Tripp and New York literary agent Lucianne Goldberg -- may be just the thing to make his case. Good luck: TIME Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf says that Special Prosecutor Ken Starr's interest in Tripp will probably trump any state investigation...
Mackerel by Moonlight by William F. Weld: The ex-Governor of Massachusetts and former federal prosecutor spins a suspenseful and allegedly hilarious yarn about a former assistant U.S. attorney who joins a white-shoe Boston law firm. With political aspirations ignited, he runs for the Senate but is menaced by a scandal from his past...